Mexico's military has arrested the alleged regional head of the Zetas drug cartel in connection with the recent murder of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent.

Pirates operating around Somalia released one ship, but seized another.

A Saudi citizen has been arrested in Texas on charges of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.

Protestors in Greece attacked police in the latest round of violent protests against austerity measures passed in the wake of a financial crisis.

Senegal has severed diplomatic ties with Iran over a weapons shipment believed to be headed to rebels that was intercepted in Nigeria last October.

Cameroon is scrambling to locate more than a dozen government officials believed to have been kidnapped by separatists fighting for the independence of an oil-rich and long-disputed territory.

Cameroon's government now believes 13 members of its government have been abducted by militants and possibly waylaid to neighboring Nigeria, where kidnappings for ransom are a normal activity in the Nigerian oil delta.

The kidnapped officials, originally thought to number just 11, vanished sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning.

Six people were killed and at least 37 wounded in northern Mexico when armed men opened fire on a crowded nightclub in an attack officials say is linked to drug cartels.

Officials said gunmen drove up to the the nightclub in Guadalajara in the early hours of Saturday and started shooting. They said one of the attackers also threw a grenade into the entrance of the bar.

The dead included a Venezuelan and a Colombian as well as four Mexicans.

Guadalajara has seen an increase in drug-related violence in recent weeks.

Article by James Simpson, DC Independent Examiner

In an article published last week, I asserted that the emerging unrest in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East has been fomented by an alliance of radical leftists and the Muslim Brotherhood. I also reiterated my longstanding view that radical Islam, while a genuine threat not to be dismissed, has actually been a false flag operation designed to mask Russia and China's continuing war with their main enemy.

A suicide bomber struck a military facility in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 31 soldiers and wounding more than 40 others.

Pakistani authorities say the soldiers were busy in their early training session in Mardan, when a teenage bomber dressed in a school uniform walked up to them and detonated the explosives.

The powerful blast is said to have instantly caused most of the deaths. Doctors fear the toll could rise because some of those wounded are in critical condition.

Witnesses say several schools are also located near the military base, called Punjab Regiment Center.